Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[mvossman]

I think young Luka wasn't willing to adjust his game to the presence of another star who needed the ball some on offense.  Luka had always been the sun and everything had always revolved around him.

I think Porzingis thought of himself as the unicorn at the time and wanted to be treated as such.  That didn't work out next to Luka.  The Celtics version of Porzingis is pretty phenomenal.  

I think they both required some maturity and experience.  I think if you brought Porzingis back now it would work much better.  

Dinwiddie is a decent player.  It's crazy we traded Porzingis for a decent player and one of the league's worst contracts and we still included a draft asset.  Cuban must have been using a psychedelic when he approved that trade.

Based on comments by our players after the second trade (like Brunson and Dorian) and KP comments now, it seems clear that it was a KP issue, not a Luka issue.  He is playing in Boston like he played his first year here, and if he stuck to that instead of looking for his, he would probably still be on the team.

I also think he has some defensive limitations that Boston's roster is more setup to hide.  I still think he may get exposed in the playoffs (assuming he is healthy at the time).